Fundamentals of a co-design methodology for improving the performance of machine tools based on semantic representation

The article identifies some aspects of ‘collaborative design methods’ that have been applied successfully in the aerospace and automotive industries and recommends a ‘knowledge-centred’ approach with the potential to capture, transfer and share knowledge at the different life phases of the MT, but currently applied mainly at the conceptual design stage... Click here to read the full abstract!

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